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SpeciesPiciformesPicidae
Birds

🐦Downy Woodpecker

Dryobates pubescens (Linnaeus, 1766)

Пуши́стый дя́тел (лат. Dryobates pubescens) — птица, самый мелкий представитель семейства дятловых в Северной Америке. В пределах ареала фоновый вид, нередко встречается на культивируемых ландшафтах и вблизи человеческого жилья. Генетики предполагают близкое родство пушистого и евразийского малого пёстрого дятлов, однако систематика большой группы дятлов, включая пёстрых и трёхпалых, находится в стадии ревизии.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.03 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Everything we know about the Downy Woodpecker

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Body mass
0.03 kg
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Tail length
0.06 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.09 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.02 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.02 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Woodland
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Insessorial
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Downy Woodpecker yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPiciformes
  5. ›familyPicidae
  6. ›genusDryobates
  7. ›speciesDryobates pubescens
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderPiciformes
  4. familyPicidae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPiciformes
  11. familyPicidae
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dunspett (sv), strakapoud osikový (cs), Dværgflagspætte (da), Dryobates pubescens (de), Pic mineur (fr), セジロコゲラ (ja) … and 21 more languages
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